To answer your question: yes, yes I do expect miracles with Dick. And by miracles, I mean a mid-table finish with no serious relegation worries along the way. I refuse to accept Bruce as our most effective manager since Reid. As an aside, here's an extract from my end of season review article on Salut: For me, you know you’ve endured a really bad of a season when you find yourself thinking: ‘you know what? Maybe Steve Bruce wasn’t that bad’. (Of course, the correct answer here is yes, yes he was). For those who want to mentally punish themselves, try to put the following ex-managers in order from best to worst: · Keane · Bruce · O’Neill · Di Canio · Poyet Go on, give it a go – it’s like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube!
Got us to 10th ya knar. For a while he had a good team. Till it all went tits up. Git big fat wobbly geordie tits. At that
The sooner Bruce stops kidding himself he's a manager/head coach, and applies for a DoF's job the better. His scouting/tracking system is excellent. In 2010, two teams were shocking the world - Paraguay and Ghana both went to the World Cup quarter-finals, and come August four of their star players had signed for Sunderland (Riveros, Da Silva, Mensah and Gyan). Bruce's problem was he couldn't organize a brewery event, and lost them as fast as he could sign these fellers. Cana, who in my opinion improved Cattermole no end - Lee was better organized and more careful with him alongside - lasted about six months. And pretty soon, Bent was on his way, too. Onuoha lied that he wanted to return to the NW to be closer to his mother - and promptly signed for QPR. Bruce can sign brilliantly. But nobody wants to stay where he is. Leave team affairs alone, Steve, and apply for a DoF's job. If Bruce has a future at all, that's where it lies.
